Students from France gathered outside the French consulate in Boston on Wednesday to show their opposition to the strong showing of extreme-right candidate Jean-Marie Le Pen in the first round of France’s presidential elections. The rally drew about fifteen students and postdoctoral researchers, mostly from MIT and Harvard.

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He worked with Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli in the early years of quantum electrodynamics, developing the method known as “Pauli-Villars regularization,” which was widely influential and is familiar to all students of field theory. Villars also worked extensively in nuclear physics, and he was the first to recognize that meson exchanges generating the nuclear force also contribute to electromagnetic properties of nuclei. Villars also developed the theory governing the collective rotations of deformed nuclei such as uranium.